Dish-cleaner.



No. 628,292. Patentedluly 4, I899.

w. c. WILLIAMS.

DISH-TCLEANEVR.

(Application 111cc!- Dec. 31, 1897,

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W. C. WILLIAMS.

DISH CLEANER.

Patented July 4, I899.

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UNITED STATES PATENTv OFFICE.

WARREN o. WILLIAMS, or TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF To- FRANK o. SHERMAN, or sAME PLACE.

DISH-CLEANER.

SI'EOIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,292, dated July .4, 1899.

Application filed December 31, 1897. Serial No. 665,156. (No modelJ scribed, and shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, made part hereof, in

which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of my device, taken on line :1: m, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a top plan view with portions of the lid broken away; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional. elevation taken on line y y, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a side and arrangement of parts hereinaftende view, partly in section, showing my device.

adapted as a bottle-washer.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the drawings.

In the drawings, 1 is-arectangnlar vessel,

of sheet metal, supported on legs 2 and having a closely-fitting rectangular lid 3. One of the vertical sides of the vessel iscurved outwardly, as at 4:, forming, approximately, a semicylindrical recess off the, chamber of the machine. The bottom of the vessel is provided with a depression 5, coinciding with the bottom of the recess 4. This depression gradually tapers away from the bottom of recess 4, or, if preferred, the whole bottom of the vessel may be inclined uniformly. With in the vertical semicylindrical chamber 4. is vertically disposed a pump-cylinder 6, which is removably secured in position by means of cleats7 engaging buttons or hooks 8 upon the inner wall of the vessel. The bottom of the pump-cylinder projects below the general level of the bottom of the vessel into the sunken portion formed by the meeting of the recess 4: and the depression 5. In the pumpcylinder is a plunger 9, (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) having apump-rod 10 engaging a horizontal handle 11, pivoted upon an upright bracket 12, riveted to a wall of cylinder is a lift-valve 13.

A From the interior of the pump-cylinder', just above the valve, leads vertical pipe 14 to a point above the level of the top of the lid. The diameters of the pump-cylinder 6 and of the. vertical tube 14 permit the two to be placed side by side within the semicylindrical diameter 4-,"so that they do not protrude into the rectangular chamber of the vessel. From the top of the tube 14 leads tube 14, extending above the top of the lid to a point just wardly through the lid into the chamber of the machine. tubes 14 and 14: is an elbow 14c, loose upon the two sections of pipe to which it is connected. At the other extremity of the tube 14: is another elbow 14:, forming a slip-joint, so that the mouth of the tube may be turned either downwardly or upwardly. It will be seen that by this arrangementof elbows and disengaged or may be swun ghorizontally and that the vertical portion at the extremity of the horizontal pipe 14 may be disengaged or may be swung, as desired, in a vertical plane.

Secured to the under side of the lid is a axially of the mouth of the discharge-pipe. This-shaft is 'journaled and stepped at botcross-piece 18 in the discharge-pipe. The wheel 15 is made up of a series of radial fashion ofa propeller, as fully appears from Figs. 2 and 3. Disposed horizontally on the bottom of the dish-chamber of the machine is a Wire rack -R, designed to support the dishes and to admit of their rapid drainage.

scribed is as follows: Assuming that the parts 7 are assembled as above described and as illustrated in the drawings, the lid is removed, the interior of the vessel isfilled with soiled dishes to be Washed, a proper amount of boiling or very hot water is poured into. the vessel, the rectangular lid is placed in position, the .el-

above the center of the lid and thence down The connection between the wheel 15, having its vertical shaft 16 arranged tool in a stout wire frame 17, secured to the bottom of the lid, and at top in a Wire loop or curved blades or vanes, somewhat after the the machine. In the bottom of the pump-- slip-joints the horizontal portion '14 may be The operation of my device thus far debows 14 and 1% are slipped vertically'into place, and the pump-handle is now operated.

ater is now drawn into the pump-cylinder through the valve 13 and is forced out through pipes 14 and 14 downwardly onto the curved blades of the wheel 15. The force of the stream causes this wheel to revolve rapidly and to throw the water violently in every direction, by means of which the dishes are cleansed. The dish-water is now drawn oii: through plug 19, near the bottom of the sump, the dishes are allowed to drain a short time, hot rinsing-water is supplied to the machine, the pumping is repeated, and the dishes are now thoroughly cleansed and the operation is complete.

is a tube which is adapted at one end to slip upon and fit the discharge end of the elbow 14 and is at its other end contracted and perforated. Between the large end of this tube and the perforations are projecting fingers 21. Now if the lid 3 be removed the elbow 14 turned with its mouth upwardly, the large end of the pipe 20 slipped over the upturned mouth of the elbow, and if an illverted bottle be slipped over the perforated extremity of the tube 20 and allowed to rest upon the fingers 21 several strong minute streams of water will be discharged into the bottle, thoroughlycleansin g the same, the water escaping from the mouth of the bottle and dripping into the open chamber below.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

In an interchangeable dish and bottle washing machine, a vessel, a pump adapted and arranged to take water from the bottom of the chamber of said vessel, a discharge-pipe leading from said pump to the top of said chamber, a slip-joint elbow at the top of said pipe, a horizontal pipe leading from said slipelbow, another slip-joint elbow at the opposite end of said horizontal pipe, whereby said horizontal pipe maybe swung in a horizontal plane, and whereby the discharge extremity of said latter slip-joint elbow may be swung in a vertical plane.

WARREN O. WILLIAMS.

In presence of T. J. DOWLING, L. E. BROWN. 

